fourthindiana said:
Did the Germans have a chance to win War War 2? If so, how could the Germans have won War War 2? Discuss.
First of all please note that there were three major
Axis powers: Germany, Japan and Italy, and also a bunch of minor powers that cooperated with the Axis for different reasons. And World War 2 got pretty complicated (* see below) as the years went.
BWV said:
the place to start is Barbarossa and the faulty assumptions that gave it little chance for success
...and the fact that Germany with Barbarossa (Invasion of the Soviet Union) opened up a second front on it's own in the east, with United Kingdom still being an unconquered front in the west. Or one could even stretch it to say later it became a third front, as the war in Africa later started to turn in favor of the Allies.
* Later in December 1941, Japan, Germany's ally, attacked Pearl Harbor, which made USA declare war on Japan. A couple of days later, Germany and Italy also declared war on USA, and the war had become more global.
Considering Germany, Germany now had multiple fronts against very strong enemies, including the potentially very strong USA, the already quite strong Soviet Union and Great Britain. I say "potentially very strong" when it comes to USA, because if I remember correctly, the entrance of USA in the war started a great buildup of military force, which after the war would still have an impact in world matters, along with the Soviet Union. And this is the beginning of the
Cold War.